The Confederacy of Parasitic Grutchlug Space is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by The First Royal Council with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, deadly medical pandemics, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 2.832 billion Grutchlugs enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ea Del. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Grutchlug economy, worth 355 trillion Egruses a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Soda Sales. Average income is an impressive 125,361 Egruses, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 786,743 per year while the poor average 8,440, a ratio of 93.2 to 1.

Weather reports simply advise Grutchlugs to 'look outside', the police are destroying all photographic evidence of their own existence, Big Brother is still watching even when your big brother is dead, and the people have taken "Hail The First Royal Council" as an invitation to lob rocks. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Parasitic Grutchlug Space's national animal is the Northern Both, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Pan-Royal Deism.

Parasitic Grutchlug Space is ranked 338,464^th in the world and 68^th in The Galactics Union for Lowest Crime Rates, with 14.35 law-abiding acts per hour.